Fort Wayne/White House plagiarism

Maybe I'm D_Bing, but former FW columnist nails current free-lancing conservative columnist - who just happens to be a White House aide:

http://nancynall.com/
Great work by Nancy Nall. My favorite part: The comments below where apologists scream that, "This should have been handled privately!" And claim that, "Tim immediately apologized and acknolwedged his mistake."

Yeah, acknowledged them after he was nailed with no question for 20 cases of blatant plagiarism.

This is the same thing I hear any time a negative story is broken on a college beat: "Why couldn't this have been handled privately??"

The guy was working as an unpaid columnist and had no deadlines. Why the hell did he plagarize stuff? It wasn't like he was under all this deadline pressure to get copy out, or that he would lose a good salary if he didn't make deadline. You've got to be dumb and lazy to plagarize in this case....too lazy and dumb to quit a job you're not getting paid for.

I was working as an unpaid columnist and had no deadlines. Why the hell did I plagiarize stuff? It wasn't like I was under all this deadline pressure to get copy out, or that I would lose a good salary if I didn't make deadline. I've got to be dumb and lazy to plagiarize in this case ... too lazy and dumb to quit a job I'm not getting paid for.